How to Use legend in a Sentence

legend

noun

• He has become a baseball legend.
• I don't believe the legends I've heard about this forest.
• Thanks to her recordings and this show, her legend will live on.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2023
• Old cities are built on myths and legends, and Richmond has many.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
• This could explain the origin of the Apache legend that these mountains are the home of the thunder gods.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2024
• And so legend suggests this is a dragon taking a bite out of the sun.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• The way this room is embracing the legends tonight is touching.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 5 Feb. 2024
• The legend shows what the colors mean, with green being the best air quality and purple the worst.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• Joni Mitchell is a legend and has nothing left to prove at this point in her career.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• And with that, the former talk show host and media legend glided onto the stage.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2023
• He was sentenced to life in prison—according to legend, on the day of the summer solstice of 1633.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 19 June 2023
• The force has become a kind of religious legend that spans through all these movies.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
• It was getting thrown in the deep end, but having this legend as your life jacket.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
• Who knew a Le Mans legend could be had for less than seven figures?
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2023
• And while some of them are legends in their own right, none have won a title in a third division at Grundy.
  — Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2023
• Fortunately, the acting legend doesn’t have to go far to do that.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
• In another legend, an opossum steals mezcal from a gang of demons and gifts it to mankind.
  — Tucker Harris, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
• At just 25 years old, Tupac Shakur was well on his way to becoming a hip-hop legend.
  — Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
• And the 42-year-old music legend was rocking a killer bra top that showed off her totally epic abs.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 6 June 2023
• By our count, that’s four birthday parties this year, which is befitting of the legend.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2023
• The country legend — who was accepting the Country Icon Award — told E!
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2023
• Gronkowski is a Boston legend, and Frates has become one too.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 12 Oct. 2023
• Police walked in on that hot summer day in 1962 and saw a racing legend slumped over in his bedroom with two bullet wounds to the chest.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 17 May 2023
• The history of the Lunar New Year originates with a legend thousands of years old.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2024
• Mao Anying was killed in the Korean War while, legend has it, cooking egg fried rice.
  — Li Yuan, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• Murphy doesn’t expect the legend of Fouts to end with back-to-back losses in Oklahoma City.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 3 June 2023
• According to legend, the maple syrup once flowed freely and ready to eat from maple trees every late winter and early spring.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024
• Local football-tossing legend Drew Brees dropped the first puck.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
• As for Napoleon, Joséphine never escaped his mind entirely—or so the legend goes.
  — Nathan Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• Country legend Willie Nelson is a proud dad to a large brood — but in 1991, he was devastated by the death of his son Billy.
  — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 26 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024